AMD Athlon 5350 vs Intel Core i3-2120

[TheMaster262014]

With regards to gaming, which cpu is better?

 

[Forever Oleg]

i3-2120.

5350 should not even be considered to be put into ANY gaming system except for games before 2006.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Yeah - it's not even close. i3 is significantly more powerful. Even a G3220 is far more powerful than the Athlon 5350.

 

[TheMaster262014]

Thanks. How do they do for overclocking though?

 

[Forever Oleg]

Thanks. How do they do for overclocking though?

i3 is locked so you cannot overclock it. The 5350 is a lost cause to start with.

The i3-2120 is a nice CPU and will be good paired with GTX 750 Ti otrGTX 950 or anything lower.

 

[Ecky]

The 5350 is a tablet CPU, it has no place in a laptop, much less a desktop PC.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

The 5350 is a tablet CPU, it has no place in a laptop, much less a desktop PC.

That's not necessarily true. For a basic internet/email/light office machine, it's actually ok. Anything more strenuous than that though and it's not going to be pretty.

 

[Ecky]

Considering you can get a dual core Celeron (Haswell or Skylake) for around the same price, it makes little sense.

 

[TheMaster262014]

Ok guys so I prefer AMD. How's the A6-3670k against the i3?

 

[Forever Oleg]

Ok guys so I prefer AMD. How's the A6-3670k against the i3?

i3 is better.

Accept it, you, AMD fanboy.

 

[Ecky]

It's hard to find a comparison using discrete GPUs, but Tom's has some numbers comparing other aspects of these CPUs:

As much as I'd like to recommend a chip made by the underdog, AMD's CPUs are just plain slower. Not only that, but you have no upgrade path, whereas with the i3, you can drop in an i5 or i7.

 

[TheMaster262014]

Thanks guys